THE Neville brothers both want to end their football careers playing for their home-town team Bury.

And younger brother Phil will have the region's cricket clubs pricking up their ears after revealing that he wants to start playing the sport again once he retires.

He says that he and Gary have both looked at Gigg Lane.

"It's something I have thought about, growing up in the town, because my mum, dad, grandma and granddad have all worked for the club.

"Myself and Gary have both said that maybe the last couple of years of our careers we might play for Bury or even manage the club one day."

But Phil says the end of his career will not bring the curtain down on his sporting activity. He represented his country in both sports at schoolboy level, but was forced to give up his cricketing ambitions at 14 when it became clear that playing both was affecting his school work.

"It's not possible to double up and play both sports anymore as the seasons overlap - England have a game on June 10 and that's probably two and a half months into the cricket season.

"I would love to play cricket again but it's physically impossible with four weeks off in the summer. As soon as the season finishes I have got to rest.

"The manager has never banned me from playing cricket but it would be silly - it's a hard ball they hit you with, and getting injured like that would be foolish.

"I have said all along that as soon as I finish playing football I will start playing cricket again, because it's a game I love.

"I had to choose between football and cricket at 14 and chose football It was the best decision I have ever made.

"Gary left school two years before me and had been at United for two years - he would come home from work every day and I could see on his face the enjoyment he got from it. That was probably the biggest tell-tale sign I had to play football.

"There was another deciding factor, when I played cricket and football for England in the same year.

"In the football I played at Wembley Stadium in front of 50,000 and made my England debut at cricket in front of 50 people at a village cricket club."